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New comment by kingrazor in "Parents who are saying no to "extracurriculars""

kingrazor — Mon, 20 May 2024 22:37:17 +0000

I have a hard time relating to this. My mom never had any pressure to do have me do any extracurriculars, and I didn't really do any. It was enough to just pass my classes and graduate. My local community college certainly didn't care.

New comment by kingrazor in "Apple's risky bet on CarPlay"

kingrazor — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 22:18:52 +0000

That definitely does not match my experience. I was in Japan in December of 2022 and used my phone to get everywhere, the directions were extremely accurate, more-so than in my home town in the US.

New comment by kingrazor in "Anatomy of a credit card rewards program"

kingrazor — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:09:13 +0000

It would take me just as long to get my phone out of my pocket as it would to get my wallet out. Plus a lot of machines have tap pay now if your card supports it.

New comment by kingrazor in "Study uses wearables to show that physical activity lengthens REM latency"

kingrazor — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:40:54 +0000

I actually get about 13,000 steps a day with a 9-5 job. I get two 15 minute breaks and an hour lunch, so I take three 15 minute walks per day. I work at a large campus, so it's not hard to get steps in.

New comment by kingrazor in "Study uses wearables to show that physical activity lengthens REM latency"

kingrazor — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 19:23:06 +0000

This doesn't surprise me. A personal anecdote: a couple of years ago I traveled to Japan for the first time. During my time there, I walked much, much more than I usually do. As a result, I was physically exhausted at the end of each day, and had some of the best sleep I've had in years.

New comment by kingrazor in "Ask HN: What is your policy regarding smartphones for your children?"

kingrazor — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 03:17:21 +0000

I don't have kids, but I do want kids some day, and I think about this kind of thing a lot.

I didn't have a phone of any kind until I was 18, and I didn't have a smartphone until I was 23. I had restricted internet access up until I was 16.

Personally, I want to wait as long as possible before giving my kids smart devices. I see little kids with smart phones and it just rubs me the wrong way. But I'm totally willing to admit I might be in the one in the wrong here, and maybe I'm being too cautious. I don't know. The internet is a very different place than when I was a kid.

New comment by kingrazor in "Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s modern foundation"

kingrazor — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 15:49:30 +0000

I have a Nehalem/Lynnfield i5 750 that still runs like a champ. Won't play modern games without a good GPU but otherwise does everything I ask it to, and is still pretty snappy for its age. The biggest reason it's not my main rig anymore is because of a lack of USB 3 ports.

New comment by kingrazor in "The entrance fee to America’s museums keeps rising"

kingrazor — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 18:13:26 +0000

Most of my best field trips as a kid involved OMSI.

New comment by kingrazor in "A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team"

kingrazor — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:29:30 +0000

Interesting! I was not aware of this.

New comment by kingrazor in "A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team"

kingrazor — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:51:50 +0000

Would that not mean you can't install any browser other than Safari? Because I'm running Firefox right now on iOS. Or does "ban" mean something else in this context?

New comment by kingrazor in "“1.1.1.1 is now handling more than 1.3T requests per day”"

kingrazor — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:28:28 +0000

I've had a very poor experience with Comcast/Xfininity's DNS. Anytime I'm managing a network with Comcast as the internet provider, I change the DNS to Google or Cloudflare. Or with pfsense I just use the root DNS servers.

New comment by kingrazor in "x86 is dead, long live x86"

kingrazor — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:56:26 +0000

9000 in the first few English dubs. 8000 in the manga and DBZ Kai.

New comment by kingrazor in "US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android more than iPhone"

kingrazor — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:55:00 +0000

This is exactly why I own an iPhone. I don't even personally like apple as a company. I don't like Mac computers. There are things that really irritate me about iPhones, but I use them anyway because of how long they get updates for.

New comment by kingrazor in "Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption"

kingrazor — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:44:43 +0000

It's easy for me to forget how different my circumstances are from most other people. I'm far more likely to be in a place where I have no WiFi than a place where I have no cell service. And I don't personally know anyone outside the US, so I don't send international messages. I guess I've never paid enough attention to the fidelity of pictures I'm sent or am sending over SMS to notice a quality difference.

New comment by kingrazor in "Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption"

kingrazor — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:34:05 +0000

That used to be my experience years ago, but now whether I use android or iphone, I see the whole group.

New comment by kingrazor in "Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption"

kingrazor — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:43:29 +0000

I've never really understood what people mean by this. For me, iMessage is indistinguishable from SMS, except for the color of the messages, and the fact that I can use iMessage over WiFi.

New comment by kingrazor in "ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products"

kingrazor — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:18:38 +0000

I've never been a big fan of HP, but they seem to be roughly equivalent to the Optiplexes. The lab I used to work in had dozens of them and they seemed to run just fine without complaints.

New comment by kingrazor in "ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products"

kingrazor — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 15:39:15 +0000

Yep ThinkCentres, Optiplexes, and Elite Desks go for pennies on eBay.

New comment by kingrazor in "Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity"

kingrazor — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:16:19 +0000

That's what my high school did. 4 block periods per day. We had "A" days and "B" days. A days were 1st, 3, 5th, and 7th period. B days were 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th period. I never had two math classes in the same semester though.

New comment by kingrazor in "Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked"

kingrazor — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 15:17:38 +0000

My experiences with Linux have been anything but seamless.